Ramla World City Festival in Ramla
An annual Sukkot-period festival in Ramla celebrating the city's exceptionally diverse population, drawn from roughly ninety countries of origin, through community-run food stalls, live music, workshops and guided tours. Most events are free, with programming organized around the city's individual immigrant and long-standing communities rather than a single centralized concert or parade.
Ramla built its Ir Olam, or World City, festival around a simple civic fact: roughly 80,000 residents whose families trace back to some ninety different countries of origin, making the city one of Israel's most demographically layered urban centers.